BBC Sport brings you a regular round-up of the gossip in newspapers and on specialist websites around the world.

The British Grand Prix has been saved. It will take place at Silverstone next year after the circuit and Bernie Ecclestone finally reached agreement.
Full story: Daily Mail

World champion Jenson Button last night greeted the news that the British Grand Prix has been saved with undisguised pleasure.
Full story: Mail on Sunday

The bid led by Luxembourg businessman Gerard Lopez and his private investment firm Genii Capital is emerging as the favourite to take over the Renault team, with F1 impresario Bernie Ecclestone pushing former BAR team principal Craig Pollock as team boss. A bid by Prodrive boss David Richards remains the other option. (L'Equipe)

Felipe Massa completed a successful karting comeback by adding victory in the Granja Viana 500 mile enduro to his heat win in last week's International Challenge of Go-Kart Champions.
Full story: autosport.com

Five hundred jobs are being axed at Toyota Motorsport GmbH in Cologne, where the company's F1 team was based. It is expected that there will 150 staff left when the lay-offs are finished.
Full story: Joe Saward's grand prix blog

Speculation that Michael Schumacher may make a Formula 1 return with Mercedes Grand Prix continue in Germany after Mercedes sports boss Norbert Haug refused, in an interview with Bild, to rule out the seven-time champion as an option for the team.
Full story: gpupdate.net

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali has shed a little more light on the decision to drop Kimi Raikkonen and hire Fernando Alonso, saying that Alonso is a better development driver, more in the mould of Michael Schumacher, and that is what the team needs.
Full story: James Allen on F1

Giancarlo Fisichella has told Germany's Auto Bild that he is keen to keep racing in Formula 1, but insists he will be Ferrari's reserve driver in 2010 whatever happens.
Full story: speedtv.com

Fisichella has admitted that a race seat at Sauber next year is a possibility.
Full story: paddocktalk.com

Former grand prix driver Alex Yoong has joined the Lotus team to head up its young driver development programme.
Full story: autosport.com

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